Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!

     It's only been a few months since I moved down south and when life happens we go with the flow. Right? Right.

Garden Quilt Top

 Hey y'all! Another quilt top finished - hurray! This one I'd like to give to my mother once it's done. When I was a wee lass we would plant flowers together in her flower garden, it had a weeping cherry tree at the center and looked so lovely with flowers in bloom under its umbrella-shaped branches. I was really fortunate and grew up on a gorgeous sect of land with woods as my neighbors and generous, loving parents. They inspire me everyday, with quilting and everything else. Anyways, here it is:

Super Duper Update

Well hello blog readers! I have been away for a while and that's sort of an understatement. I completely changed my mind about the design - I wanted to do something different than the typical sampler style quilt and found a pattern on Pinterest that sparked my interest:

(c) Blue is Bleu

Sunshine Marmalade - Top Complete!

Here it is! My first queen size quilt top:

It's not perfect but I have learned a lot, wrote a plan for the next time using this pattern, and can't wait to snuggle under my first queen sized quilt.

Thanks for visiting and happy quilting fellow quilters!

-Beatrice

QCA BOM Quilting Bee + others Update

Here are the June blocks I created:

Ruins of Jericho

Album Variation

Sunshine and Marmalade Update 3

Lots of blocks have been completed - 17 out of 30 total. I've found that planning three blocks, BnW photo test completed and passed, speed sewing the inner rectangles and the squares is the fastest way to do this.

Drawing the diagonal to sew on.

Along the way I use large tapestry curtains and quilting pins as my planning board to see how it looks all together.

This helps me see which prints will repeat or if certain colors are crowded on one side. It's a lil floppy on the left side but it gets the job done. Keep it strong you crazy quilters - quilt on!

  -Beatrice

Sunshine and Marmalade Update 2

So much progress lately! Here's what I've been doing:

Sunshine and Marmalade - Update 1

I've gathered the fabrics from my stash and cut them.

May Blocks for QCA Quilting Bee

New blocks for the month of May!

Sunlight and Shadows

Update - *Quilters Club of America BOM Quilting Bee 2013

Here are the blocks I have made thus far:

January

Bees and Fields

This is the layout that's supposed to be used. The pattern wasn't correct and therefore lead to problems producing the block. This statement is backed up by many experienced quilters on the website. I took the picture in BnW to show the values(?) of the colors and why I chose them.  

Sunday Update!

I finished Row #3 of the Cathedral quilt! Here's what it looks like so far:

It's hanging by clothespins in my window right now.